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Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10) [message #793956 is a reply to message #793953 ]	Fri, 05 November 2021 12:47

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CrusaderPi wrote on Fri, 05 November 2021 12:31

NCREDiBLE wrote on Fri, 05 November 2021 11:10

inverno76 wrote on Fri, 05 November 2021 10:01

CrusaderPi wrote on Fri, 05 November 2021 08:40

Welcome everyone to Kevin Lowe retirement night against the Rangers.

If only he was retiring from all things hockey. That is reason to celebrate.

Let's at least let him have his night, despite some frustrating years for many of us.... The guy deserves this for all he has done. He truly has always been an Oiler through and through.

I'm not sure he's been an Oilers through and through. Of course, I'm a former tier one fan that still holds some bitterness over the last 21 years of hockey in this town.

I think we can compare and contrast this retirement ceremony to the others we've seen over the last 20ish years. I was excited and felt lucky to be in the building for Coffey and Anderson. I was pissy when a shadow was cast across Messier for some reason. I made a point of watching Gretzky, Kurri, and Fuhr go in the rafters. This one? I'm not really interested. If I didn't have to work late tonight, I'd go to the Riders game instead of watching this. I certainly won't be tuning in early tonight to relive the nostalgia and listen to better players try to convince me how important this is. I will do my utmost to avoid the intermission chatter even though I'll probably be watching on MSG to avoid the fawning.

I tried hard (and succeeded) to get tickets to Gretzky, Kurri, Coffey, Anderson and Messier's nights. I had to work so missed the opportunity to see Fuhr's. I had the Sather tickets fall in my lap too and really appreciated all those - although the Messier one was a weird night with the Smyth deal, and the sour mood in the building, followed by the total no-show by the team in that game. I do remember Lowe substituting himself out of that ceremony.

I think it is a bit foolish of the team to do this while he's still a part of team management. It increases the chance he hears some boos tonight. I won't do that, despite some of my hard feelings, but I'm not sure there aren't going to be some. That'll be hard for him to hear if they happen.

I even believe there's potentially good reason to include Lowe in the group in the rafters - first draft pick, first goal, big part of 5 Cups, Assistant Captain for 4 of them, Captain of the team before he left, most games in franchise history. But it's hard to separate his management tenure with his playing days while he's still going to work in the Oilers office and part of a management team that still is helping to handicap our chances of winning.

Also I still am curious why Lowe is always esteemed so much higher than Charlie Huddy. As I recall, that was the case even in the 80s (although I was relatively young during the heyday so could be mistaken). Maybe he was seen as the anchor on the second pair, while Coffey was on the first? Huddy's numbers might have been seen to be in part because of him playing so much with Coffey and by extension Gretzky?

"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
~~#FireLowe~~ #FireBobbyNicks #FireKenHolland #FireKeithGretzky

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Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: OilFans on Fri, 05 November 2021 02:00
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: CrusaderPi on Fri, 05 November 2021 08:40
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: inverno76 on Fri, 05 November 2021 10:01
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: NCREDiBLE on Fri, 05 November 2021 11:10
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: CrudeRemarks on Fri, 05 November 2021 11:28
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: CrusaderPi on Fri, 05 November 2021 12:31
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: Adam on Fri, 05 November 2021 12:47
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: CrudeRemarks on Fri, 05 November 2021 13:22
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: bigEfromGP on Fri, 05 November 2021 13:46
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: CrusaderPi on Fri, 05 November 2021 13:51
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: Adam on Fri, 05 November 2021 15:22
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: CrudeRemarks on Fri, 05 November 2021 15:44
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: inverno76 on Fri, 05 November 2021 16:00
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: CrudeRemarks on Fri, 05 November 2021 16:19
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: Skookum Jim on Fri, 05 November 2021 14:12
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: Adam on Fri, 05 November 2021 11:41
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: NCREDiBLE on Fri, 05 November 2021 12:01
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: K.McC#24 on Fri, 05 November 2021 12:51
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: NetBOG on Fri, 05 November 2021 13:13
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: smyth260 on Fri, 05 November 2021 13:26
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: NetBOG on Fri, 05 November 2021 13:33
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: NCREDiBLE on Fri, 05 November 2021 14:37
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: MJ on Fri, 05 November 2021 17:17
Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: Skookum Jim on Fri, 05 November 2021 17:22
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Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: Dragon_Matt on Fri, 05 November 2021 15:16
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Re: Pregame: NY Rangers @ Edmonton (Game #10)	By: Oscargasm on Fri, 05 November 2021 18:59
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